I’m Lovin’ Adobe Photoshop CS4
Tech - 2 Comments » - Posted on October, 5 at 6:27 am
I’ve been spending a lot of time tinkering around in Adobe Photoshop here lately. I created a new layout for The Symposium at long last. Granted it kept the same structure as the old one, but the graphics and color scheme are definitely new. That layout let me experiment with some of the basics of photoshop. Brushes, layers, shadowing, overlays – very, very basics, not that I’m particularly gifted or an expert when it comes to graphics though. I have to say, I like it a whole lot.
Even though I’m using CS4 Extended on my laptop it runs so much smoother than CS3 Lite ever did. There’s no silly freezing, locking up, or slow-motion movements that use to occur fairly regularly if I had more than iTunes and photoshop open at the same time. It was bad enough that some people thought I might need new graphic or video cards installed on the laptop. It got better when the Vista Service Pack was installed but it never really went away. Now, with CS4, the problem is completely gone.
I haven’t done anything really advanced with photoshop, just mostly tinkering with photos for posts, the layout I mentioned, and coloring an image for some Halloween activities at one of the message boards I frequent. After having to use Gimp (because remember, PS was lost when my laptop crashed at one point) and switching back to PS it’s like heaven. I can do so much more now and the image quality is superb.
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It’s always nice when you make a new layout that you really love. I hope you have fun learning more and more about how the program works.
The slight changes in CS4, I think is what makes all the difference. I was so ecstatic to discover if I opened a picture that was shot vertically but saved horizontally, CS4 automatically corrects it. It’s awesome. I haven’t used CS3 in so long I don’t remember what it was like. Lol! But I am glad to hear that it seems to be working well with your computer. =]